recover. he could have brought in the national guard and kept order. i think because it came up the question about, you know, i think in the media, they re saying trump is going to be a madman and abuse the powers. i get that s the narrative. if you watch the four years, a lot of the tale is him not using the authority he had. you would have used the insurrection act? i would have used it. and during covid, a lot of us were telling him to fire fauci. not only did he do that. he gave fauci a commendation. he would complain about people in his administration. but he had the authority to fire them, if these things weren t doing he never really did that. i get why people do the narratives. he had opportunities to follow through on campaign promises and didn t do it. governor chris christie dropped out of the race. what did you make of it? i was surprised. i thought he would stick through
infectious disease physician. i think he did great for three years. but when he turned the country over to fauci in march of 2020, that destroyed millions of people s lives. cnn s k-file has found some comments that desantis himself made about dr. fauci at that very same time during the pandemic. cnn k-file senior editor andrew kosinski is here. andrew, the florida grofsh has not always disparaged dr. fauci. tell us more. that s right, jake. some pandemic revisionism from the desandtis campaign attacking trump for comments praising fauci, saying he turned over the country to fauci. and that s despite that ron desantis was actually praising dr. fauci at the exact same time saying in campaign events that he would defer to fauci s guidance on the pandemic. when he he even advocated policies that desantis now
in your testimony, maybe you are reluctant here, go ahead. look at the timeline, may 21, just a few weeks after the article came out, two of the signatures of the original e-mail to dr. fauci, dr. anderson and dr. gary, were awarded $9 million grant. nine million reasons why they changed their mind, i knew you would get to it. i read that last night. three days after they say it came from a lab, they change their position and only intervening event was a call that mr. redfield was not allowed to be on, head of cdc and task force and they get 9 million bucks from fauci, isn t that something? we want to talk to the guys and chairman wenstrup wants to bring in dr. anderson and dr. gary to
get to the bottom of this and move forward and deal with this. here is the key question, i m just common-sense guy from ohio. i got a degree in economics, you are supposed to get a degree, i got one in economics, they tell you about opportunity cost. when you are spending your time making sure the country believes only one theory, you could have been doing what dr. redfield was doing, trying to figure out how to deal with this virus and dr. fauci was trying to cover his backside. this is highest paid guy in the government getting money to tell us things that were not accurate. we know u.s. tax dollars went to a lab in china, lab not up to code, doing gain of function research and that is where this thing came from and dr. fauci had to prove he can t have that news getting out and did what he
did it come from a lab? this question is fundamental to help us predict and prevent future pandemics. expert witnesses putting holes in the story, we ve been told, for the last three years. why do so many people believe the virus came from nature? the natural origin camp got its story out first, always a big help. painted the lab leak as a conspiracy theory. it was promoted by science administrators in the united states. dr. fauci dismissed the lab leak theory, for years in fact. he expected it to be a big topic today, new e-mails reveal covid s top doc prompted drafting of a paper to disprove the lab leak theory.